Ortus

from Dryad by Alex Taylor

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lyrics

How have I labored?
How have I not labored
To bring her soul to birth,
To give these elements a name and a centre!

She is beautiful as the sunlight, and as fluid.
She has no name, and no place.
How have I laboured to bring her soul into separation;
To give her a name and her being!

Surely you are bound and entwined,
You are mingled with the elements unborn;
I have loved a stream and a shadow.

I beseech you enter your life.
I beseech you learn to say "I"
When I question you:
For you are no part, but a whole;
No portion, but a being.

- Ezra Pound

credits

from Dryad, released November 29, 2023
Miguel Zazueta, tenor solo
Alexander Ishov, alto flute, bass flute
Mitchell Carlstrom, tubular bells, almglocken, bass drum
Tasha Smith Godinez, harp
Kyle Adam Blair, piano
Alex Taylor, conductor
Christian Cummings, audio engineer

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Alex Taylor Auckland, New Zealand

Alex Taylor is a composer, songwriter and poet originally from New Zealand and currently based in San Diego, California.

Artist photo by Priscilla Northe, Striped Trees Productions.

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